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Patented .15111.51 1, 1890.

BALING PRESS' 0. B. KINNARD.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OVEN B. KINNARD, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR TO THE KIN- NARD PRESS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BALlNc-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,471, dated July 1, 1890.

Application filed September 2l, 1889. Renewed June '7, 1890. Serial No. 354,550. (No model.) l

To all whom. t may concern.' terial there may be in the hopper into said Be it known that I, OWEN B. KINNARD, of baling-chamber. This feeder consists, pref- Minneapolis, in the county vof Hennepin and erably, of a plate 9, mounted upon or secured State of Minnesota, have invented certain new to a lever 11, that is pivoted, preferably, 55 5 and useful Improvements in Ealing-Presses, upon the frame of the baling-chamber and of which the following is a-specification. has its rear end connected to the plunger by The object of this invention is to provide a suitable connecting-rod 13. The plate 9, a baling-press that is used for baling hay or when the plunger is advanced in the balingsimilar material with an automatic feeder for chamber, is moved away Yfrom the hopper 7 6o ro feeding the material into the baling-chamber, in substantially the position shown in Fig. 1, and also with improvedmeans for inserting and as the plunger is retracted the plate 9 into a continuous baling-chamber partitionmoves down through the hopper 7, pushing boards for separating or dividing the bales of the hay or other material in the hopper into material. the baling-chamber in front of the plunger 3, 65 15 The invention consists, generally, in the the plate then assuming substantially the poconstruction and combination hereinafter sition shown in Fig. 2. described, and particularly pointed out in the For the purpose of separating or dividing v claims. the bundles in the baling-chamber I provide In the accompanying drawings, forming partition-boards 15, which are placed in the 7o zo part of this specication, Figure 1 is a lonbaling-chamber, and thus separate the ma 1 gitudinal vertical section of a portion of a terial therein. I provide upon theinner Walls baling-press having my invention applied of the chamber horizontal grooves 17, that thereto. Fig. 2 is a similar view of a portion extend to a point beneath the hopper, where of the chamber, showing the plunger retracted they join vertical grooves 18, that extend to 75 25 and the .partition-board inserted in front of the top of the Walls of the chamber. The the plunger. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of side walls of the hopper are preferably flared the partition-board.. Fig. 4 is a transverse outwardly, as shown in Fig. 4. Thepartitionvertical section on line of Fig. 2. Figs. 5 boards 15 are provided with the pins or studs and 6 are details showing the groove that 19, which project from the opposite edges 8o 3o guides the partition-boarc. thereof.

In the drawings, 2 represents a suitable- To place the division-boards 15 in position baling-chamber, Within which is arranged a in the baling-chamber, each board is dropped plunger 3, to which is connected a pitman 5. into the hopper 7 when the plunger is in its This plunger is preferably operated through forward position, as shown in Fig. l, and the 85 3 5 suitable gearing, substantially as described in pins 19 upon the division-boards are brought Patent No. 377,942, issued to me February 14, into the top of the vertical groove 18. Vhen 1888, although, so far as the present invention the plunger is retracted, these pins pass is concerned, it may be used in connection down to the ends of the grooves 17, and as with a baling-press in which the plunger is the plate 9 passes down through the hopper 9o 4o operated by any suitable means. the board is brought into the vertical position The balingchamber 2 is preferably pro shown in Fig. 2, and as the plunger is advided upon its upper side with a suitable vanced the board moves in frontof it through opening surrounded by a hopper 7, through the baling-chamber, the pins 19 passing along which the hay or other material to be baled in the groove 17. l 5 45 is fed into the baling-chamber. For the purpose of preventing the board For the purpose of automatically feeding from moving upward, so as to bring the pins the material into the Daling-chamber I proout of the grooves 18, I prefer to provide the vide an automatic feeder, which, each time hooks 21, which arc formed in the wall of the plunger is retracted, passes down through said grooves and are adapted to engage the roo 5o the hopper and into the baling-chamber in pins 19 and prevent them frompassingupward front of the plunger, thereby forcing any maand disengaging from said grooves.

The division-board is so constructed that in combination with the vertical groove 18 it may be dropped loosely into the bottom of the hopper and directly upon the top of the plunger while it is making the stroke on a former bale. Then wh en the plunger returns it leaves an opening directly beneath the division-board, which now is under the hay or other material which has been placed into xo the hopper. As the plunger returns, it carries the lever-controlled feeder down upon the material in the hopper and pushes it, together with the division-board, down into the baling-chamber. As the division is pressed down into. the baling-chamber by the feeder 9, it is stopped by the pins in the edges striking the end of the vertical groove, and, the pressure being continued by the returning plunger, the division is caused t0 rotate until it assumes a vertical position. It can be readily seen that by one stroke with my device I not only feed the machine with its supply of material, but place the division-board in place between the hay and the plunger without wait- 2 5 ing for the stroke to be completed.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a baling-press, the combination, wit-h a movable plunger, of a balingcl1amber, the upper wall of which is provided with an opening to admit the insertion of the material to be baled, the two side walls being provided with connecting vertical and longitudinal grooves, and division-boards provided with pins or projections adapted to engage said 3 5 grooves, said division-boards being adapted to be placed in a longitudinal position in the bottom of the hopper.

2. The combination, with the movable plunger 3, of the baling-chamber, the side 4o walls of which are provided with longitudinal and vertical connecting-grooves 17 and 18 and the upper wall of which is provided with an opening for the insertion of material into the baling-chamber, and the partition-board 15, provided with the pins 19, adapted to be inserted in said grooves, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with the movable plunger, of the baling-chamber, the side walls of which are each provided with a continu- 5o ous vertical and longitudinal groove from an opening in the upper Wall to the end of the chamber and adapted to receive a partitionboard, the partition-board provided with pins in its .sides placed nearer one end than the other and adapted to enter said grooves, and the lever 11, provided with the feeding-plate 9, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with the plunger, of the chamber provided with the grooves 17 6o and 18 and the hook 21 in the wall of said grooves 18, and the division-board 15, provided with the projections 19, adapted to engage said grooves, substantially as described.

5. In a baling-press, the combination ot' a 65 hopper, a division-board adapted to be placed horizontally in the bottom of the hopper and provided with pins in its side edges nearer one end than the other, and a baling-cliamber having side walls vertically and horizontally 7o grooved, adapted to receive said pins, and so arranged as to permit said division-board being pushed into said baling-chamber between the inserted material and the plunger.

In testimony whereof lI have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of September, 1889.

- OWEN B. KINNARD.

In presence ot'- A. M. GAsKILL, BEssIE BooTH. 

